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Hi to all!

I'm a new in BT that why I'm looking for a little help... I'm sure that somebody can help me. Don't forget that everybody was a beginner once. All the problems until now I took care myself reading the forum, but now I'm stuck. I'm trying to update the kernel to version 2.6.30.5. Everything is going perfectly until I receive an error message "Memory Low" and the process stops. I used first a 4GB USB Memory and I thought the memory stick is full, and I changed with another one of 16GB. But the same problem. In this case I think, the problem is my RAM . How can I fix it? Is it any solution or any script to create the "VAR" folder on the stick and not in RAM? I know that maybe I'm looking like a stupid, but I didn't work with Linux. Only with Windows until now. Thank's to all great peoples which are creating every day great programs like this. Sorry for my imperfect English... and thank's in advance for your help!

BT4 in VMWare (with VMWare USB Install too)

Originally Posted by 5p4wn

Not working for me.

I have a BT4 running in a vmware machine, after I did this kernel update following the steps in the blog, the machine has been having slow downs, the mouse pointer moves too slow and I can't type neither.

1. apt-get install linux-source-2.6.30.5
2. cd /usr/src
3. tar xvjf linux-source-2.6.30.5.tar.bz2
4. cd linux-source-2.6.30.5
5. zcat /proc/config.gz > .config
6. make menuconfig
7. In the menu choose: Processor type and features -> High Memory Support (4GB) -> 64GB, and then exit the program saving the changes when it asks for it
8. make (And wait... Depending on your computer this may take something between 15 minutes to about an hour. This will create /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.30.5/arch/x86/boot/bzImage and /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.30.5/System.map that you will use with grub so copy them as /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30.5 and /boot/System.map-2.6.30.5 respectively. You will have to make an entry for them in /boot/grub/menu.lst)
9. make modules
10. make modules_install
11. mkinitramfs -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30.5 2.6.30.5
12. reboot (assuming you made the correct entry for grub you will be able to boot from it)
13. (from the shell as root) fix-splash

And everything should be working...

Check the memory with free, and it should report the amount of RAM you really have.

/usr/sbin/grub-update i believe, or update-grub will scan the system and set up menu.lst for you.

However, i've found that the above procedure has an issue - i've been struggling with this most of the day. for some reason, mounting NTFS partitions ends badly to say the least. The system goes into a hard-lock, requiring a hard reboot. There's something about enabling PAE that causes problems.

Does BT4pf still use ntfs-3g or the built in kernel support for NTFS? i went through the default config and it has ntfs read support enabled. i didnt change a thing except to enable PAE (64GB support) and every time i mount an ntfs partition, my system has that lock-up problem. Any ideas?